Featured Antiques That Used To Sell Well But Don't Anymore?

Antiques That Used To Sell Well But Don't Anymore?

• Art Pottery - Many pieces of Roseville Pottery have experienced huge depreciations in value. Many pieces that would have sold for $100+ fifteen years ago now sell for $25-30. Exceptions: There is still a strong market for scarcer art pottery including better Roseville lines.
• Antique Furniture - Not across the board of course but it is hard to find any categories of antiques where prices have fallen further than furniture. Dark wood and large bulky pieces have been hit hard with few exceptions. Saw a roll top desk sell for $200 at an antique auction that would have hammered for $1500+ a few decades ago. This may be the time to buy since I don't see how prices could get much lower than they already are.
• Shirley Temple Items, Elvis Pressley Collectables, & Other Similar Items - The number of people that have nostalgia over these cult of personality items is getting fewer every year and younger generations don't have the same fondness for these items.
• Stamps - The collector base has all but dematerialized in recent decades and the only stuff holding value is the exceedingly rare. Many collections are reduced to being used as discount postage.

Please add your own categories and any thoughts you may have on the topic.

 

Old glassware. Can't give the stuff away. Depression glass was so hot and now I just pass it by in the thrifts. Beautiful wheel-cut and etched sets of glassware go begging.

 

I can see Roseville being on a decline because they made so much of it. I always see it in antique shops and auctions/flea markets etc. Old glassware too like Brad said can't give it away. I'm trying to sell the rest I have but probably going to list it in a huge lot that way I can get what I get all at once. I'm just tired of messing with it. Candleabras used to be popular but not so much anymore

 

It was also reproduced by China.

 

Tell you what, one category of antique furniture that keeps rolling along and if anything, keeps increasing? SHAKER!
I am not sure exactly why though, it just doesn't seem to notice that there is a depression in old furniture at all, still highly collectible. Ditto Pantry boxes, seed boxes, baskets, up! Up! & UP!

 

silver plate...unless by one or two major makers....

 

Ceramics, glass, and silver-plate. That stuff sits...and sits...and sits...and SITS. You couldn't sell it for 10c a pound where I live.

 

What Joe said. And everybody else.

The only category of stuff that I can think of that HASN'T depreciated that I also collect are miniature oil lamps. You don't see many, and they usually still go for good prices.

Other than that, our house o' goodies has probably lost 60% of its value in the past 5-10 years.

 

I think it's my fault. Everything I have for sale has gone south. Only 3 of my last 17 eBay auctions even got a bid, and only for the opening bid. Everything I WANT to buy maintains unreachable heights, such as Wedgewood Fairyland Lustre, Mt Washington Royal Flemish, Salem witch pieces, wax mourning dolls, 18th century or earlier memento mori rings, and antique holiday anything.

 

LOL, Yep. welcome to my world! and, there is supposed to be a depression in old brown furniture!

 

Hummels. If you want to get depressed, look at where "figurines" of any sort have gone in the last few years. I went to an estate sale this morning, big mistake, and everyone took one look at the Lladros and kept walking. Street signs moved briskly, but the ceramics and glass just sat.

Dionne quintuplet memorabilia has gone in the tank too. Anything pop culture that is pre-WWII is pretty well down the tubes. All of the buyers are either dead or selling off their collections and ...pfffft. Turn the lights off on your way out.

 

I started to collect Silly Myruss items to ascertain my pension.

 

Amen! Still paying premium for museum-quality pieces. Sleepers are few and far between with everyone on the internet these days.

 

What's that, please?

 

Yep, 100% correct. Almost everything that i want in the old furniture world somebody else want more, A LOT more usually.

 

nuthin.......Miley Cyrus....hanna montana....pop star.. twerker..

 

uhhhhhhhhhhh, noooooooooooo

 

Nice quality tat. I tried to keep my eyes off the rest.

 

a dream catcher is an interesting choice....

C'mon folks , yer acting like it's porno......
this isn't a bedroom shot...she's at the video music awards..